​BY A STAFF REPORTERLOS ANGELES, CA – Indian-American Senator Kamala D. Harris served as Grand Marshal for the 33rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Kingdom Day Parade here on Jan 15, honoring Dr. King’s 89th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his sacrifice in the name of civil and human rights. In her remarks at the...

Kingdom Day Parade Breakfast, she highlighted the importance of Dr. King’s legacy and how it lives on through all those who organize and fight to ensure freedom and justice for all today.“Dr. King’s fight is about understanding we are all equal and saying that we will fight always for that beautiful premise,” Harris said. “He talked about a beloved community and what that looks like. He understood that a beloved community was a diverse community of equal people, of equal stature, that deserved and required equal dignity. And so our fight right now is a fight for all of that, but as we march out here let’s march with joy, let’s march with pride. Let’s understand that a fight for the ideals of who we are as a country is the essence, is the whole definition of what it means to be a patriot and this is a fight about love of country.”* She went on ``“So certainly we know that we are living in dark times when we have supposed leaders who are thriving, who are politically profiting off of sowing hate and vision in our country. We know we are living in dark times when we look at whole communities of people who are being belittled and denigrated and insulted. We know we are living in dark times when we look at those Dreamers who received DACA status and then this Administration arbitrarily on September 5 said they were going to take it away, and that’s about 220,000 Californians in addition to the almost 800,000 Dreamers around this country. We know these are dark times that require us to fight and march and resist.”Harris was joined in the 2.5-mile parade along Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd with community leaders and organizations including Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles and many others.